Re: fetchmail - sendmail problem

2006-10-05 Thread Simon Barner
Julian Stacey wrote: PS I guess you'r using fetchmail built into/ called from sendmail: that's why a timeout can occur. I do it a different way: fetchmail called from crontab, localy delivers to me on gate host, gate invokes another mail via ~/.forward to my internal network; More

Re: fetchmail - sendmail problem

2006-10-05 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Slightly OT, but any reason you don't run fetchmail as a daemon (just currious)? Reason was smaller building blocks to rearrange/ debug during construction/ breakage. Now merely a case of it works others things to do. `When I get round to it (TM ie ages ;-) I'll go D-DNS SMTP whole way omit

fetchmail - sendmail problem

2006-10-04 Thread Karsten Fuhrmann
Hello, i have a problem with some strange spam emails, which lock up my email reception. The problem is the following : I am using fetchmail to download my email (from a pop3 server), and fetchmail passes the email to my local sendmail daemon who gives it to my local imap server (cyrus).

Re: fetchmail - sendmail problem

2006-10-04 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Is there a way to tweak the timeout behavior of sendmail, or maybe even no dns resolve option for sendmail, or even better some way to tell fetchmail to use the idle command to keep the connectio to the pop server open ? sendmail.mc supports FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains'),

Re: fetchmail - sendmail problem

2006-10-04 Thread Graham Menhennitt
Karsten Fuhrmann wrote: The problem is the following : I am using fetchmail to download my email (from a pop3 server), and fetchmail passes the email to my local sendmail daemon who gives it to my local imap server (cyrus). This works fine. But sometimes i got a spam email, which has an

Re: fetchmail - sendmail problem

2006-10-04 Thread Julian Stacey
Is there a way to tweak the timeout behavior of sendmail, or maybe even no dns resolve option for sendmail, or even better some way to tell fetchmail to use the idle command to keep the connectio to the pop server open ? sendmail.mc supports